Valve-stem packing.



PAT'ENTED NOV. 10, 1903.

J. H. HOOPER.

VALVE STEM PACKING.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. z5, 19oa.-

no MODEL.

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' /MM ALW/7 nlgemfofa i Patented November 10, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. HOOPER, OF BOYNE, MICHIGN.

VALVE-STEM PACKING.

SPECIFICATION forming` part 0f Letters Patent N0. 743,507, dated November 10, 1903.

Application filed August 25I 1903. Serial No. 170,754. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN H. HOOPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boyne,

in the county of Charlevoix and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Valve-Stem Packings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful valve-stem packing; and the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described.

The objects of the invention are to furnish a packing which can be easily applied, which is durable, and which cannot readily get out of repair, thereby always making a watertight joint. These objects I accomplish by means of the mechanism illustrated'inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a detached view of the valvestem with a portion of the hand-wheel and gland in section. Fig. 2 shows an elevation of the packing complete. Fig. 3 shows a longitudinal sectional view through the center of Fig. 2.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The valve-stem A engages with the packing-box Gr in the ordinary manner. The upper part of the valve-stem is contracted, so as to form a shoulder B, as fully shown in Fig. 3. Resting against this should er B is the packing C. The stuffing-box Gis bored out of uniform size, so that it leaves a space around the valve-stem, which is filled by the circular gland D, the circular gland D iitting into the stuffing-box G and having its lower endresting against the packing C. Slidably mounted upon the valve-stem is the hand-wheel E, by means of which the valve-stem can be rotated.

I prefer to make the upper end of the valvestem square, as shown at H, so as to fit the square opening in the handwheel; but any suitable construction may be Aused whereby the hand-wheel is slidably mounted on the valve-stem in such a manner as to be rotated therewith.

The upper end of the valve-stem is pro- Vid ed with a screwthread,with which engages the nut F, said nut F bearing against the hand-wheel E.

In order to compress the packing and cause the same to fill the entire chamber, so as to make a water-tight joint, the screw F is turned so as to press upon the hand-wheel E, which causes the hand-wheel to bear against the upper end of the circular gland D, pressing the gland downward, and thereby compressing the packing C between the lower end of the gland D and the shoulder E on the valve stem. This causes the packing C to spread, so as to entirely ll the opening and always make a water-tight joint. By this construction I form a chamber for the packing by the construction of the ,valvefstem itself, and bearing onA the valve-stem by means of the shoulder B, which retains the packing in place, and by the use of the circular gland D,

the hand-wheel E, slidably mounted upon the stem, and the nut F, I produce a packing for the valve-stem which can be readily repaired, as the packing is always accessible by merely removing the nut F and the parts held in position thereby.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described valve-stem packing, consisting of the valve-stem provided with a shoulder, a stung-box,with which said valvestem engages, a packing surrounding the valve-stem and engaging said shoulder, a cylindrical gland bearing againstthe packing, a hand-wheel slidably mounted upon the valvestem and abutting against the upper end of said gland, and an adjustable'nut engaging with the end of the valve-stem, and adapted when adjusted in one direction to compress the packing between the shoulder and the lower end of the cylindrical gland, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. HOOPER. Witnesses:

WM. N. LEWIS, R. K. CRANE. 

